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Justin Timberlake will headline the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 4, in Minneapolis. Timberlake will become the first person to perform at the Super Bowl for a third time. He first appeared in 2001 as part of N’SYNC, alongside Aerosmith and his former girlfriend Britney Spears. The next time was in 2004 with Janet…

Students venturing into the Newman Vertical Campus’ Room 3-241, better known as Baruch College’s Health and Wellness Center, will find something missing from the three-office suite — the LGBTQ+ Community Resource Center. The center officially relocated to NVC 3-216 on Oct. 25, giving Baruch’s LGBTQ community a larger and much needed space on campus. “For…

With their backs against the wall in Game 3 of their American League Championship Series matchup with the Cleveland Indians, the New York Yankees kept their season alive with a thrilling 1-0 win at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees had been smothered by Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer in Game 1 and had their hearts torn out…

A quarter of the NFL season is already in the books. Week 5 certainly did not disappoint. The New York Jets looked to extend their two-game winning streak in Cleveland this weekend. The game fulfilled expectations as a defensive matchup. The Jets won 17-14 and are ready to enter Week 6 with a record of…

The 2017 season is off to a great start for Baruch College’s women’s softball team, which is enjoying its best start in team history. The team won three out of four games at the Virginia Wesleyan College Beach Blast in Virginia Beach, Virginia, to kick off the season. The next three games, which pitted the…

Scientists have created an accurate method to analyze metabolic biomarkers determining whether a child is on the autism spectrum, according to a study published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology. The algorithm, based on a blood sample, is the first physiological test for autism and can help diagnose patients earlier. The autism spectrum disorder includes…

According to the Harvard Business Review’s report of the top 10 best performing CEOs, it is not the year-to-year financials of the company that are most important, but rather the lifetime performance of the CEO. While this mentality may not be the most common among businesses, it is one that defines the choices Yahoo CEO…

Most mammals have a greater life expectancy in zoos, rather than in the wild, concludes a recent study. Published in Scientific Reports by researchers from the University of Lyon in France and the University of Zurich in Switzerland, the study compared four survival metrics in order to reach this conclusion. The international research team compared…

In President Barack Obama’s first presidential address, he vowed to return science to prominence in U.S. society. Now, at the end of his second term, Obama has renewed his vow by setting a clear goal to send humans to Mars and back by the 2030s. In his first few months in office, Obama made multiple…

Over 40 years after paleoanthropologists discovered Lucy, one of the oldest hominin fossils ever found, new research suggests that our 3.18-million-year-old ancestor died after falling from a large height. When Lucy’s skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, it was found to be relatively complete, eventually allowing scientists to conclude that Lucy’s body was subjected…